Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Monday, March 28, 2022

Another reason more people are welfare-dependent

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In December 2017  123,039 people were on the Jobseeker benefit and 289,788 people were on any main benefit. By December 2021 the respective ...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The difference the protest made

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Many still credit the Labour government with its life-saving approach to Covid in 2020. But from the outset it was only ever another form of...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Gap between unemployed and jobseekers is huge

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 From Statistics New Zealand , note unemployed numbers at end December 2021: From the Ministry of Social Development  note Jobseeker numbers...
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Saturday, March 05, 2022

Maori fertility rate drops to historic low

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By the end of 2021, the Maori fertility rate had dropped to 1.99 This is a fall from the first Stats NZ recorded rate of 6.28 in 1963 That...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2022

I was there again today...

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 ... but left too early to experience the unnecessary mayhem that kicked off later in the afternoon. I reported to a friend: The focal point...
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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Luxon likes lefties way too much

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Talking to Chris Lynch this morning on Magic Talk, National Leader Chris Luxon was singing the praises of our last Children's Commission...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

A sample of the anti-mandate protestors

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312 responded face-to-face. Poll-wise margin of error plus or minus 4.6%       - Most aged over 41       - Labour was the most common vote a...
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Friday, February 18, 2022

First-hand reports

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More testimony from those who have actually spent time at the protest site: NewstalkZB Political Editor  Barry Soper:  The trouble is the po...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Protest gathering force

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A high achieving sportsman, knighted no less, trumps politicians in his ability to distil and state his position: In a post made on Faceboo...
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Tone-deaf government

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While thousands of people, Maori in particular, are protesting at parliament over jobs and businesses lost due to the mandates, Ministers Ca...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Protest Day 8: Answer me this

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Has there ever before been a protest to parliament that was stonewalled by every party? What the heck is going on? Where is the Maori Party ...
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Indistinguishable parties

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From the parliamentary occupation site this morning, a row of caricatures. I guess to the protestors the parties are indistinguishable. Thei...
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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Protest perspective

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To be amongst the protestors is both calming and exhilarating. There's a strong sense of trust in one another which has been long denied...
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Tent city holding

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Media reports are insufficient. Since Friday the protest has swollen enormously. I took a walk around all the streets near parliament this m...
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Friday, February 11, 2022

Temporary Tent City?

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Quite early this morning I went down to parliament to look for myself and get a feel for the mood. Yesterday the police spent hours pushing ...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Our welfare system is not functioning well

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In the clamour against Labour's proposed unemployment insurance scheme something odd has happened. The detractors are praising the exist...
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Sunday, February 06, 2022

Oranga Tamariki statistics under new regime

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CYF became Oranga Tamariki in 2017. There has since been a push to reduce Maori children in state care (not dissimilar to the push to reduce...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Underneath the official unemployment rate announced today

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Unemployment is now at 3.2 percent. Wow. Wonderful. Can I think of another word beginning with 'W'? Weird. The percentage of people...
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The age of anxiety

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 Not a worrier by nature I note with a degree of objectivity that the human brain is now constantly assaulted by messages designed to make p...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022

When words say so much

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 According to RNZ the PM is a covid close contact and has to isolate. The following sentence made me laugh: In line with Ministry of Healt...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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